We investigate the value creation or destruction associated with the introduction of software patents in the United …) firms around the time of important court decisions that impacted software patents, and the second analyzes the relationship … between firms' stock market value, the sector in which they operate, and their holdings of software patents. We conclude that …

We investigate the value creation or destruction associated with the introduction of software patents in the United …) firms around the time of important court decisions that impacted software patents, and the second analyzes the relationship … between firms' stock market value, the sector in which they operate, and their holdings of software patents. We conclude that …

Patent thickets, or an explosion in complementary patents causing resource constraints, have been known to affect firm … inspection on how social network effect and patent thickets affect firm market value in the context of social networks in patent … cooperation by analyzing a sample of 419 electronic equipment manufacturing firms in China. Our findings suggest that while patent …

software patent. Moreover, we examine the impact of contextual factors related to the nature of innovation underlying firms … value of software patents. Specifically, we examine the interaction effect of a firm’s software patent stock and its … dataset consisting of 602 US firms, our results indicates that a software patent portfolio having higher levels of explorative …

issued by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). We find that Tobin's q is … citations, family size and the number of technical fields covered by the patent are modestly informative for value. Software … patents account for a rising share of total patents in the USPTO and EPO. Moreover, some scholars of innovation and …